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I J. MQANARNEY.

ROPE OLAMP.

Np. 468,819. Patented Feb. 16,1892,

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. MOANARNEY, OF OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 468,819, dated February16, 1892. Application filed March 26, 1891. Serial No. 386,571. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN S. MCANARNEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oklahoma, in the county of .Oklahoma and Oklahoma Territory,have invented a new and useful RopeOlamp for lIitching-Rings and theLike, of which the following is a specification.

, This invention is an improvement in ropeclamps and the like, and maybe especially employed as a hitching-ring.

The objects of this invention are to produce I a ring by the use ofwhich a strap may be fastened or a halter hitched without tying a knot,to produce a hitching-ring by the use of whiclimuch time and labor maybe saved in fastening and unfastening horses, and, furthermore, to'produce a simple, inexpensive,an'd useful device for speedily fasteningthe ends of ropes, straps, cables, and the like for tying bags,tent-ropes, &c.

With these objects in view the invention resides in the various noveldetails of construction and in the combination of parts hereinafterfully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings,in which I have illustrated my invention and in whichlike letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts,Figure l is aside elevation of my improved rope-clamp or hitching-ring,and Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the same with the end of therope secured thereto.

In the drawings, A designates the ring or clamp, and B a halter or rope.The ring or clamp A consists of a pear-shaped loop 1 and curved sidepieces 2, extending on either side of the neck of the loop and in thesame plane therewith. The loop and the side pieces are formed in anyconvenient manner of a single piece of metal. It will be noticed thatthe pear-shaped loop 1 has in its neck a V- shaped notch 3. At the endof the loop opposite the notch 3 and the curved side pieces 2 a perfotherope B, it will cramp the end of the rope beneath the first turn thereofbetween the sides of the notch 3 and the same will be held firmly. Thefunction of the curved side pieces 2 is to guide the loops of the ropeand to restrain them from slipping over the end or neck of thepear-shaped loop.

Instead of fastening the rope to the ring, as

above described, the rope may be bent upon itself and the loop thus madeto pass through the ring, down over the curved ends, and then tightened.The tie will be the same as above described. I

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described improved rope-hitching device, the same formed of asingle solid piece of metal and consisting of the pearshaped shankhaving a correspondinglyshaped opening, the inner ends of the sides ofthe shank being converged to form a solid rigid neck and merged into thelaterallycurved side pieces disposed at opposite sides of the neck,substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN S. McANARNEY.

Witnesses: I

F. X. BEIDLER, WM. MACKIE.

